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information you should know from last year? Were there any special projects to raise the money for :hese? WI Educational What has been done in this area? Are :nore members participating in the tourses? Are more delegates attend~ rig District annuals, etc.? Community Projects and Activities :5 the WI more visible in its com- nunity? Is it participating in the local wrojects and activities? Other Projects -'erhaps a look at the contributions 0 other organizations. Should we save concentrated more on the WI ind the communities? Programs Did you have a program this year in 'our Branch and what was it about? Special Events include information on possiny your anniversary celebrations or some .pecial project of the WI. Publicity are you using the press and what are he results? Do you display at fairs to? Comments from the PRO )id you feel the public relations in .‘our branch improved? Did you at- end the Officers Conference at a 7R0? Recommendations and Suggestions What could be an improvement for the next year? __Râ€" n ACWW Photos We all like to have a pictorial record of any major event and the Canadian Conference Committee is happy to advise that photographs and colored slides of the 1983 Associated Country Women of the World Con- ference will be available at the June 1983 ACWW Conference. Pictures of the various events will be posted in a central location and orders taken with delivery before the end of the conference. In addition orders for sets of coloured slides will be taken and it is hoped these, too, Will be available by the end of the conference in order to avoid postal charges. Delegates from any society wishing to have their group's picture taken will be able to make an appointment to do so. Additional information will be provided in the delegate’s conference kit. While it is not possible to quote prices at this time, they will be as reasonable as possible. Pep up meetings Are your meetings dragging? Does the business time creep into the pro gram time? Parliamentary procedure may be the answer. An entertaining slide set on parliamentary procedure is available from the Rural Organiza- tions & Services Branch, Guelph Agriculture Centre (see address p.2). Officers’ Conference Just a reminder to all those WI members signed up for this year’s Ofâ€" ficers’ Conference. Registration takes place May 3 from I to 6 pm. at the Great Hall Village II, University of Waterloo The conference gets under- way at 7:30 pm. in the Humanities Theatre and concludes May 5 after the noon meal. About her life... continued from p. 10 with the temperature sometimes 30 to 40 degrees below zero, in a “jumper” drawn by two branches. Returning to Ontario, Laura Rosc took a year at Alma Ladies‘ College, St. Thomas, after which she took a course at the Farm Dairy School, On- tario Agricultural College, Guelph. Graduating with high honours, she was engaged as instructress at the school, which position she filled creditany for 13 years. During this time, the first Women's Institute was organized, and Miss Rose was engaged by the government as official organizer and lecturer. Hcr task was nowadouble one. as she conâ€" tinued her duties at the O.A.C. and travelled all over the province, organizing and addressing Women's Institutes. Her proud boast is that for 32 consecutive years, she addressed the summer series of meetings. Being a fluent, instructive and entertaining speaker, and possessing an amiable and charming personality. she endeared herself to Institute members and was always assured of a warm and sincere welcome. Her services were also in demand at Farmers' Institute meetings. where she lectured ably and acceptably on home and farm life. Miss Rose organized Institutes in the provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and addressed meetings in Prince Edward Island and Quebec. She also served in the capacity ofjudgc of butter. bread, jams and fruit and fancy work at rural fairs. For six years she conducted a "travelling dairy“ in Nova Scotia, with such marked success that the premier oflhc province, at the conclu- sion of her work, paid her this compli- ment, “Miss Rose, when you came here, we rarely got a pound of butter; now it is an exception to get a pound of bad butter." As a writer, Laura Rose excelled. For years she edited the home page of Canadian Farm, also the lnglcnook page in Farm and Dairy. She has writ- ten articles on home and farm life for leading journals in Canada and the United States. Hcr greatest literary achievement was her SOC-page book, Farm Dairying, published in 1911. It ran through four editions and served as a text and reference book in many agricultural schools and colleges. In 191 I, Miss Rose married Mr. W.F. Stephen, secretary ofthc Cana- dian Ayrshire Brccdcrs‘ Association and ofthc Montreal Milk Producers‘ Association. After living in Hun- tingdon, Quebec, fora few years, they moved to Ottawa, whcrc Laura Rose died at age 97 in 1964. The name Laura Rose is a house hold word in Ontario, and in the other provinces to which she gave so freely of her time and talent, and it will go down in the annals ofthe Women's In- stitutes because of her valuable con- tribution to rural Canada. 17